First check the two steps mentioned below i) Task Manager > Performance and check if "Virtualization" is enabled. ii) Control panel > Turn Windows Features On/Off and check if HyperV is not enabled Then run the following commands >> dism.exe /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V >> bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off You will need to restart the system for the changes to happen After restart, Open Android Studio > Configure > SDK Manager and now you should be able to setup HAXM in your windows system. To reset back to normal (incase if there are other issues in the system) >> dism.exe /Online /Enable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V /All >> bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

Safe fix for Mac (Android studio 4.1+). After Mac gets updated, we need to create a symbolic link to Android Studio.

Just run in the Terminal this command

$ ln -s ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/AndroidStudio4.1/plugins ~/Library/Application\ Support/AndroidStudio4.1

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